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I have a cassette player for the first time in well over a decade. This thrills me more than you can imagine. I still have a large number of cassettes, even after going through and purging my collection years ago. I had been thinking of picking up a portable CD/cassette player for a while,…
Line up all the Disney animated films, stack them up, compare them to one another, and The Sword In The Stone is certainly one of the lesser offerings. The film was a success and would be the last fully animated film Walt Disney himself would see released (The Jungle Book was developed under his tutelage,…
I don’t remember if I saw Disney’s Robin Hood in theaters, as it came out in 1973, after Walt’s death. This film wasn’t started by him (unlike The Jungle Book) – and in many ways an experiment for the company. Walt Disney Studios proved it could continue to release films, but without any influence or…
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is an adaption of the comic book storyline that changed virtually everything for every character in the DC Comics pantheon. Timelines have shifted and the world is a very different place. Bruce Wayne was killed and his father survived becoming Batman. Aquaman. War has broken out between the Atlanteans and…
Before Airplane!, before The Naked Gun, even before The Blues Brothers or Animal House there was The Kentucky Fried Movie. Written by Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker and directed by John Landis the Kentucky Fried Movie is essentially a series of skits and disconnected bits of comedy spoofing mostly movies and television. Most of the names and…
We’re back from Ireland, but I wanted to make a quick post about yesterday, which was my 46th birthday. I don’t know when the tradition started, but every year for my birthday I go and see movies in the movie theater. This has been going on for decades, as far back as my teen years….
Am I making this post out of some sort of sense of obligation? Maybe. I think the significance of this “event” in our vacation is such it does warrant special mention. So here it is. The blog post about Cave Hill. One of the things Laura wanted to do in Ireland was visit Cave Hill…
After a long day’s journey around the Inishowen Peninsula we were eager to pull into Buncrana and take it easy. We stayed at the Tullarven Mill, just a couple minutes away from the main streets of town. When looking for a place to stay, we had a short list of needs, and this place met…
In Ireland we’ve been staying with my dad who lives on the north coast in a small town called Ballycastle. From there we’ve been taking day trips out and about to various places. One of the biggest trips we took was an overnight trip to the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal. Travelling largely counterclockwise around the…
Some of what Laura and I had wanted to see was the old sites, those ancient ruins that were beyond the ancient monasteries or whatever. There’s plenty of prehistoric locations and artifacts in Ireland, and this day we traveled south a bit to see some. On the way we stopped at Coleraine to see Mount Sandel,…